“When I hear about people murdering, I wonder, What has to go through your brain to say, I don't want him breathing anymore? What makes you get that angry? How can you take someone's breath away? That just blows my mind.” -GILBERT ARENAS
This is such a fitting quote when talking about Hans Frank, The Butcher of Poland. For a man that helped kill million of Jewish people. Do you think he was really angry...angry enough to takes someone's breath away? To truly find the answer to this question let's dive into the life of Hans Frank. Then let's move into what role did Hans play during the Holocaust. Finally let’s wrap things up with the Nuremberg trials.
To start things off let's dive into the early life of Hans Frank. Hans Frank born in
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He was born into the family of 4 with his father Karl franks who was a lawyer. His mother Magdalena Buchmaier. He had two siblings his older brother Karl Jr. and his younger sister Elizabeth. After graduating from Maximilian gymnasium(which is german equivalent of prep school in germany) in Munich. Immediately after graduating and turning 17 he joined the German army to fight during World War I. In 1919 to 1920 after the war he decided to join Thule Society. Which is a group of Germans whose main concern was the original Aryan race. Ian Kershaw Hitler's biography stated that The Thule Society membership is like a Who’s Who’s of early Nazi sympathizers. This group was so strongly believed in the belief of pure bloodlines anyone wanting to join the group would make a blood oath of faith with a contract that states “The signer hereby swears to the best of his knowledge and belief that no Jewish or coloured blood flows in either his or in his wife's veins, and that among their ancestors are no members of the coloured races." He was also a member of the Freikorps which a militia of sorts. It was a group of volunteer soldier and mercenaries. For the Freikorps nationality didn’t matters also long as you would protect your people. After World War I the Freikorps being became …show more content…
It all started after he became Governor-General. Hans abused and used his power of this position and his legal experience. He started by forcing the Jews into the ghettos. A notable one would be the Warsaw ghetto and forcing the polish people to work as labor. In 1942 he lost all privilege except of the General Government. After annoying Hitler with several speeches in Berlin, Vienna, Heidelberg and Munich. The General Government which is partially colonized Poland held 4 of the 6 extermination camps. Notably Belzec, Treblinka, Majdanek and Sobibor. Chelmno and Birkenau fell just short of being part of the territory. This is important to know because Han’s is in almost complete control of the General Government at this point. By January 1945 Hans has fled the General Government after the Soviet Army closes
Adolf Hitler was born April 20, 1889 to Klara and Alois Hitler in a small town in Austria called Braunau. Braunau was located about 65 miles from munich and about 30 miles north from Salzburg. Adolf grew up not having as much money as they would like but still made it work with what they had. Adolfs dad, Alois Hitler was a mid- level customs worker while his mom did not have a job so she could take care of the children. He had five siblings, but only one survived childhood due to illnesses and lack of medicine. Paula Hitler, his sister was the only sibling that survived childhood while Gustav, Ida, Otto, and Edmund. Besides them, he did have a stepbrother named Alois and step-sister named Angela from his father's previous marriages. His father had two marriages before Adolf was born. Adolf’s father was fifty-one when he had him, and died when Adolf was only thirteen. Adolfs mom, Klara had died of breast cancer in 1908 (Early Years).
The effect the Holocaust had on Wiesenthal played a major role on the person he made himself to be. Born on December 31, 1908, Simon Wiesenthal lived in Buczacz, Germany which is now known as the Lvov Oblast section of the Ukraine. The Nazi-Hunter came from a small Jewish family who suffered horrifically during the Holocaust (The Simon Wiesenthal Center). Wiesenthal spent a great amount of time trying to survive in the harsh conditions while in internment camps and after escaping the last camp he attended. Wiesenthal spent weeks traveling through the wilderness until he was eventually captured by the Allies, still wondering the entire time if his wife was even alive (The Simon Wiesenthal Center). Of the 3000 prisoners in the camp Wiesenthal escaped from, only 1200 survived and Wiesenthal was one of them (Holocaust Research Project). Once Simon was safe, he began working for the War Crimes Section of the United States Army and was later reunited with his wife (United States Holocaust Memorial Museum). The two were under the impression that their spouse was dead. After their reunification, they had their first child in 1946 (Holocaust Research Project). Wiesenthal opened a Jewish...
Imperial Manifesto of Poland The document of Imperial Manifesto of Poland was created by the
During world war II, Hitler, Germany’s ruler, wanted to create a perfect country. Germany attacked Holland, and they surrendured. There were laws made against jews, and the overall goal was to get rid of them. Hitler began to send out police (also known as gestapo) to find jews and put them in prisons or consentration camps.
The Nazi Regime, which came to power in Germany in January 1933, deemed Jews and other minority groups as "inferior.” They claimed Germans were racially superior and Jews were a threat to their so-called German racial community. In addition to Jews, German authorities also targeted other groups because of their perceived "racial inferiority," such as Gypsies, the disabled, and homosexuals. The Nazi dealt with these groups evolved in 3 steps. The first was expulsion, or the attempt to get all the in...
She grew up with her parents Edith Frank and Otto Frank and her older sister Margot. Her mother was born in Aachen on January 16, 1900. Her father was born in Frankfurt am Main on May 12, 1889. Lastly, her sister was born in Frankfurt am Main on February 16, 1926. On July 6, 1942, the family goes into hiding.
Hitler still did business with Jewish shop owners in selling his paintings, however, the seeds of hate were planted and would be nurtured by events soon to come, laying the foundation for one of the greatest tragedies in all of human history. Adolf became a drifter for several years after both his parents passed away. Hitler volunteered for the German Army and in his first engagement against the British and Belgians near Pyres, 2,500of the 3,000 men in Hitler's regiment were killed, wounded or missing. This war experience gave Hitler what he needed to one day be a successful military leader. Adolf Hitler joined the committee of the German Workers' Party and entered politics. In the summer of 1920 Hitler chose the swastika for the National Socialist German Workers' Party, for short Nazi.
It all started on January 30, 1933, when Adolf Hitler took over power in Germany. In the historical fiction book, Friedrich by Hans Peter Richter, Friedrich the main character suffers and dies in the Holocaust. Friedrich, a young Jewish teenager, and his friend are growing up in Germany in the early 1930s. When Hitler comes into Germany and takes over, Friedrich’s world changes. First he is expelled from school.
...ance fighter toward the close of WWII. This was a part of “Operation Last Chance”, a movement to find the last of the Nazi fugitives and to punish them before they die. According to NewYorkPost.com, “The hunt is no longer for high-level perpetrators of the Holocaust, in which some six million Jews were murdered, but for thousands of people who helped in the machine of death.”
When Adolf Hitler joined the Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei, or NSDAP, or simply the Nazis, in 1919, he could not have imagined that in just a few short years he would have his own personal army. This army would be comprised of veterans from the Great War, and would have little respect for anyone or anything except Hitler himself. He could not have imagined he would be purging them a few years after that, either. This personal army of his was called the “Sturmabteilung,” or SA, which translates into Storm Detachment. They were nicknamed the “Brownshirts” because of their uniforms.
If the “killers” of the Holocaust were not put in the situations they were in, many of them would not have committed the crimes they did; whether they were killing the Jews or just delivering the Jews to camps, they were part of the extermination of innocent people. Most of them were killing in fear, they didn’t want to be persecuted and murdered so they made it look like they were for the Nazi party. Anne Frank once said, “Despite everything, I believe that people are really good at heart.” I believe that this quote, which is saying that some people do bad things but that does not mean they are bad people, many are doing things out of fright, hoping it will save their lives, is very true. All But My Life by Gerda Weissmann Klein which is about a Jewish family, mainly on the little girl in the family who goes through the unimaginable during the Holocaust, popped into mind when I heard the quote. Also two short stories called “Tiengen” by Maurice Meier and “Rescuers” by Irene Opdyke came to mind when I read this quote.
(Boyne214). This quotation from the fictional novel shows how horrific and difficult the circumstances of the Holocaust were. This quote also represents the rest of the world’s point of view on the situation at hand. Throughout the events of the Holocaust the rest of the world was left wondering what the people affected by this traumatic event went through and experienced. The world was also left wondering what went through the minds of every German Nazi soldier whom followed Hitler’s commands to kill others.
I used this quote because I was shocked that death stated it. How could he call someone so kind a rat? He didn't deserve it. But he did give us a sense of how the Germans thought of the Jews. It almost slapped me into a sense of reality if what Jews really were at the time. Even though they were as equal as everyone else.
The Poles who were West Slavic people established Poland in the late 5th century. History was first written in the 10th century about Poland when the Polish nation changed into Christianity in 966. Prince Mieszko I was the first ruler and his son, Boleslaw I, was the first king of Poland. This established the Piast dynasty that lasted from 966 to 1370. During the Piast dynasty there where Piast kings with a lot of rivalries from nobility and Bohemian and Germanic invasions that made Poland a very troubled country. The last king of the dynasty was Casimir III, crowned in 1333. He extended Polish influence eastward to Lithuania and Russia. He acquired Pomerania from the Teutonic Knights and shifted borders between Poland and Germany. During his 37-year reign a university was established, laws were made more organized, castles grew strong, and minority groups were given protection (Grolier).